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Officials say she also had other medical issues which could have contributed to her death.

Following the killing of Abdulkarim Bala Na’Allah, son of Senator Bala Na’Allah by bandits on Sunday, a former Senator, Shehu Sani has lamented how the city of Kaduna has now become unsafe.

Abdulkarim was killed in his residence in the Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

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Sani described the killing of Captain Abdulkarim Bala as unfortunate.

He also prayed that Allah should forgive his shortcomings and accept his soul.

“The news of the killing of Captain Abdulkarim Bala Ibn Na’Allah, the son of Senator Bala Na’Allah in Malali GRA Kaduna is tragic and unfortunate. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Bandits Kill Ruling All Progressives Congress Senator’s First Son 0 Comments 6 Hours Ago

“It used to be the outskirts of our city that was unsafe and now it has gotten into the city. May Allah forgive his soul,” he wrote.

Abdukkarim was strangled to death on Sunday. He was a pilot.

Special Adviser to Senator Na Allah, Garba Mohammed, who confirmed the incident, said the hoodlums entered the house through the ceiling.

According to Mohammed, a neighbour’s security guard had noticed that the gate of the residence of the deceased was open and raised the alarm, which led to the discovery of the remains of the pilot.

Kaduna State has become a hotbed of kidnapping and banditry in recent times.

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Following the killing of Abdulkarim Bala Na’Allah, son of Senator Bala Na’Allah by bandits on Sunday, a former Senator, Shehu Sani has lamented how the city of Kaduna has now become unsafe.

Abdulkarim was killed in his residence in the Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Shehu Sani

Sani described the killing of Captain Abdulkarim Bala as unfortunate.

He also prayed that Allah should forgive his shortcomings and accept his soul.

“The news of the killing of Captain Abdulkarim Bala Ibn Na’Allah, the son of Senator Bala Na’Allah in Malali GRA Kaduna is tragic and unfortunate. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Bandits Kill Ruling All Progressives Congress Senator’s First Son 0 Comments 5 Hours Ago

“It used to be the outskirts of our city that was unsafe and now it has gotten into the city. May Allah forgive his soul,” he wrote.

Abdukkarim was strangled to death on Sunday. He was a pilot.

Special Adviser to Senator Na Allah, Garba Mohammed, who confirmed the incident, said the hoodlums entered the house through the ceiling.

According to Mohammed, a neighbour’s security guard had noticed that the gate of the residence of the deceased was open and raised the alarm, which led to the discovery of the remains of the pilot.

Kaduna State has become a hotbed of kidnapping and banditry in recent times.

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A former vice president of the World Bank (African Region), Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and five other global figures have joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as senior fellows.

In a statement on Sunday, the President of Yale University, Peter Salovey, welcomed the new fellows and its 19 returning fellows.

This year’s senior fellows include Obiageli Ezekwesili (Nigeria), Staffan de Mistura (Italy & Sweden), Jessica Faieta (Ecuador), Anne W. Patterson, David Brooks, and Jessica Seddon (United States), the institute stated.

According to Ezekwesili’s spokesperson, Mr Ozioma Ubabukoh, Jackson’s senior fellows are leading practitioners in various fields of international affairs, and will spend a year or semester at Yale teaching postgraduate courses and mentoring students.

“Ezekwesili will teach two postgraduate courses on Democracy and Africa’s Political Distortions, and Resolving Africa’s Economic Philosophy Dilemma, respectively, during the 2021 fall semester,” he said.

“Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs applies evidence-based scholarship to challenges of maximum global importance, such as climate change, war and peace, ethnic conflict, inequality, and migration,” Ubabukoh added.

According to Salovey, the world needs creative ideas and leadership to help end global conflicts and solve intractable problems.

“By establishing the Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, we will create an intimate community of outstanding faculty, practitioners and students to conduct research of great relevance to the development and adoption of international policy.

"Yale will continue to fulfil its longstanding mission to educate passionate public servants, who confront the day’s most daunting challenges with wisdom, facts, insight and courage,” said Salovey.

The new fellows include economic experts, astute commentators, publishers, bestselling authors, ambassadors, and academics.

An economic policy expert, Ezekwesili is Senior Economic Adviser to the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative. She is a co-founder and pioneer director of Transparency International.

She is also the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Human Capital Africa, which is working in the education sector across Africa; Chairperson, School of Politics, Policy and Governance; and Chairperson of research-based citizens-led #FixPolitics Initiative.

Other notable positions she had occupied include Vice President of the World Bank; Nigeria’s Minister of Solid Minerals, and of Education. She previously worked as Director of the Harvard-Nigeria Economic Strategy Project with Prof Jeffery Sachs at the Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Massachusetts. 

Obiageli and her colleagues will join a cast of global leaders who are returning as senior Jackson fellows.

Senior Jackson fellows have included global leaders like former US’ Secretary of State and current envoy on Climate Change to the President, John Kerry; former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; former United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development, Rory Stewart; former Minister of Finance for Canada, Bill Morneau; and six-term Governor of Massachusetts, Howard Dean.

Others are the founding Director of Yale’s International Leadership Center, Emma Sky; US Ambassador to Syria(2011-2014), Robert Ford; Senior Advisor at Coursera and former President of Yale University, Rick Levin; Chair of Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign and Senior Counsellor to President Barack Obama, John Podesta; lead climate lawyer and climate negotiator for the US, Susan Biniaz; Director and Co-founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness, Clare Lockhart; and former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander of United States Forces Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal (retd.).

The rest are former US Deputy Secretary of State, Amb. David Negroponte; Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley, Asia, Stephen Roach; and the former Chief Executive Officer of Sub-Saharan Africa for Goldman Sachs, Colin Coleman.

Ezekwesili expressed appreciation and delight to accept the globally prestigious fellowship from Yale University and the opportunity to teach its distinguished postgraduate students.

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American forces launched a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday that killed a suicide car bomber suspected of preparing to attack the airport, US officials said.

This comes as the United States nears the end of its military presence in the city.

The strike, first reported by Reuters, is the second carried out by U.S. forces in Afghanistan since an Islamic State suicide bomber struck the airport on Thursday, killing 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians trying to flee the country.

A U.S. official said Sunday's strike was carried out by an unmanned aircraft and that secondary explosions following the strike showed the vehicle had been carrying a "substantial amount of explosive material."

According to witnesses, a large blast shaking a neighbourhood north of Hamid Karzai International Airport was heard, and television footage showed black smoke rising into the sky.

U.S. Central Command confirmed the strike and said in a statement that it had no immediate indication it caused any civilian casualties, but was investigating.

"We remain vigilant for potential future threats," it said.

U.S. President Joe Biden had warned on Saturday that the situation on the ground in Kabul remained extremely dangerous, and that his military chiefs had told him another militant attack was highly likely within the next 24-36 hours.

U.S. officials had said they were particularly concerned about the local affiliate of Islamic State (ISIS-K) attacking the airport as American troops depart, in particular the threat from rockets and vehicle-borne explosives.

Sunday's drone strike took place as Biden headed to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to honour the U.S. service members killed in Thursday's suicide bombing.

On Friday the U.S. military launched a drone strike that it said targeted ISIS-K militants in Nangarhar Province, east of Kabul, killing two of the group's planners and wounding a third.

As the United States continues to withdraw troops, officials say concerns about another Islamic State attack will mount.

Biden sent thousands of troops to Kabul airport as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan earlier this month to help evacuate American citizens, at-risk Afghans and other foreigners who wanted to escape the country's new rulers.

At the peak of the deployment there were 5,800 U.S. troops securing the airport, where the unprecedented airlift operation is set to end by Tuesday.

Despite Biden's vow to go after the perpetrators of Thursday's attack, U.S. officials have cautioned that beyond a symbolic act or limited operation, the United States could in fact do little to degrade ISIS-K.

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The Butcher of Aso Rock General Muhammadu Buhari sees himself as more than just a brutal tyrant. He considers himself as a deity So, let’s pray to him:

General Buhari thy will be done in Nigeria as it is done in terrorists’ countries. Give us this day Fulani Republic. Forgive not the trespasses of those anti-patriots who daily attack you for trying to islamize Nigeria and make it Fulani country. Let them succumb to temptation, and suffer under the weight of their venom, and deliver them not from evil.

Since former Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi spill the beans on Boko Haram sponsors on Channels TV Sunrise Daily breakfast program, Buhari, The Butcher of Aso Rock has gone into boiling rage. He ordered the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to demand for Olawunmi’s head. In strict obedience, the NIA promptly declared Olawunmi wanted, asked him to report Tuesday with his international passport at NIA headquarters in Abuja. 

Nigerians knew all along what the eloquent, articulate, and brilliant Commodore Olawunmi said that Buhari is the commander-in-chief of the terrorists because of his utterances, body language, and his failure to rein in the terrorists. Olawunmi’s statement is profoundly weighty because he is a member of the intelligence community. His revealing interview removed any iota of doubt that Buhari is the commander of the terrorists and would do anything to islamize Nigeria. Buhari has offered protection, welfare packages, and reinforcement for the terrorists. On the other hand, Buhari continues to persecute relentlessly southern victims of Fulani terrorists and southerners who criticize Buhari and condemn the terrorists. He shields the terrorists and gives them free hand to operate without any consequences.

Commodore Olawunmi should dare NIA and refuse to go to Abuja for any interrogation. NIA has no subpoena powers to force him to comply with its invitation. Olawunmi has committed no crime. He’s only exercising his freedom of speech guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution as amended. If the government or NIA, or DSS, or any of the arm of Buhari’s torture secret police was angered by Olawunmi’s revealing interview, they should drag Olawunmi to court. Indeed, it is a rare opportunity for them to come out and set the record straight. By the way, why was he asked to come with his international passport? For what? He’s not a criminal who is trying to flee the country. The real criminals are the terrorists - Buhari, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists, El-Rufai, Gumi, Miyetti Allah, all the northern governors, northern senators, the Attorney General Malami, Tanko the Chief Justice, Birchi the DSS Director General, Lai Mohammed the information minister, Garba Shehu, Kyari of the HushPuppi loot, directors of all the intelligence agencies, supporters and defenders of Buhari’s ethnic cleansing and islamization agenda.

Olawunmi’s interview should convince all doubting Thomases especially the Yorubas that Nigeria is not one country and can never be one, that there’s justification for separation, that Nigeria cannot be renewed, redeemed, or delivered from Buhari and his band of jihadists who are bent on islamizing Nigeria and turn it to Fulani country. Olawunmi has again made a compelling submission why Nigeria should break up. No further reason or proof is needed for the inevitability of Nigeria’s demise. Nigerians should be grateful to Commodore Olawunmi for his courage, boldness, honesty, and patriotism. Olawunmi, Professor of Global Security Studies at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, is one of the few remaining heroes in a country ruled by terrorists, scalawags, imbeciles, thieves, scammers, and looters. 

 

Meanwhile, Oduduwa Nation beckons!

 

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Residents of Eka Kuso in Kpada District of the Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State have narrated how they fetch and drink from dirty streams.

The residents during a visit by an anti-corruption civil society organisation, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD) said they have been excluded from water supply for years, forcing them to resort to fetching untreated water from streams around.

A video obtained by SaharaReporters shows the various areas where residents fetch water from are dirty, bushy and mashy.

“We suffer a lot when it comes to getting water, especially during harmattan. We don’t use to feel okay during that time, right from morning, around six o’clock, they will fetch water and wait till like ten o’clock so it can settle down,” a villager was heard saying.

“We want help wholeheartedly, we are really suffering.”

On July 22, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 526 deaths from cholera while there are 22,130 suspected cases in 2021 alone. 

The primary cause of cholera is the ingestion of contaminated food and water, majorly fuelled by the lack of water and sanitation hygiene (WASH) infrastructures.

Water Aid says 60 million people in Nigeria lack access to clean water. That is one in every three people.

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Residents of Eka Kuso in Kpada District of the Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State have narrated how they fetch and drink from dirty streams.

The residents during a visit by an anti-corruption civil society organisation, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD) said they have been excluded from water supply for years, forcing them to resort to fetching untreated water from streams around.

A video obtained by SaharaReporters shows the various areas where residents fetch water from are dirty, bushy and mashy.

“We suffer a lot when it comes to getting water, especially during harmattan. We don’t use to feel okay during that time, right from morning, around six o’clock, they will fetch water and wait till like ten o’clock so it can settle down,” a villager was heard saying.

“We want help wholeheartedly, we are really suffering.”

On July 22, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 526 deaths from cholera while there are 22,130 suspected cases in 2021 alone. 

The primary cause of cholera is the ingestion of contaminated food and water, majorly fuelled by the lack of water and sanitation hygiene (WASH) infrastructures.

Water Aid says 60 million people in Nigeria lack access to clean water. That is one in every three people.

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Al-Amin Shettima Bello, a man who served Borno State government for 35 years as a teacher and retired meritoriously is now hawking on the streets of Maiduguri, the state capital.

Bello told journalists in English that he was taught by the British.

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According to him, in his school back then, there were only a few black teachers whom he identified as the late Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, Shettima Kashim and the late Shettima Mustapha Kutai (father of the current Senator representing Borno Central in the National Assembly, Kashim Shettima), Daily Post reports.

Sharing his story with journalists by the roadside, Bello said Professor Bosoms Sheriff of the University of Maiduguri was his school mate.

“Professor Bosoms was ahead of me with one year because he completed his primary education in 1966 while I completed in 1967. He is older than me in class, not by age,” Bello said.

He continued, “I started schooling in Yerwa Central and completed in 1955 where I proceeded to Trade Business and trained as a carpenter. I worked as a carpenter for several years before my parents decided that I go back to school again. I went to Old Bama Primary School and completed in 1967 where I proceeded to Borno Teachers College.”

Bello, who is usually around the First Bank ATM centre at Maiduguri Monday Market, said the area was strategic as it would afford him the opportunity to market his goods – mentholated Robb – to people who had just withdrawn cash.

 “Teaching is an exciting job but there is no money in it. It is a sacrifice. Now that I have retired, I can only help myself with the little from this business rather than being a dependent on people,” he said.

 The economy has gone worse under the government of President Muhammadu Buhari with inflation rising at an alarming rate.

A report by The Economist in May 2021 said, "Inflation is running at 18%. For food it is 23%, the highest in two decades. More than half of Nigerians are underemployed or unemployed. Before covid-19 about 80m of Nigeria’s 200m people lived on less than the equivalent of $1.90 a day. The pandemic and population growth could see that figure rise to almost 100m by 2023, says the World Bank."

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Al-Amin Shettima Bello, a man who served Borno State government for 35 years as a teacher and retired meritoriously is now hawking on the streets of Maiduguri, the state capital.

Bello told journalists in English that he was taught by the British.

Teacher ICIR

According to him, in his school back then, there were only a few black teachers whom he identified as the late Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, Shettima Kashim and the late Shettima Mustapha Kutai (father of the current Senator representing Borno Central in the National Assembly, Kashim Shettima), Daily Post reports.

Sharing his story with journalists by the roadside, Bello said Professor Bosoms Sheriff of the University of Maiduguri was his school mate.

“Professor Bosoms was ahead of me with one year because he completed his primary education in 1966 while I completed in 1967. He is older than me in class, not by age,” Bello said.

He continued, “I started schooling in Yerwa Central and completed in 1955 where I proceeded to Trade Business and trained as a carpenter. I worked as a carpenter for several years before my parents decided that I go back to school again. I went to Old Bama Primary School and completed in 1967 where I proceeded to Borno Teachers College.”

Bello, who is usually around the First Bank ATM centre at Maiduguri Monday Market, said the area was strategic as it would afford him the opportunity to market his goods – mentholated Robb – to people who had just withdrawn cash.

 “Teaching is an exciting job but there is no money in it. It is a sacrifice. Now that I have retired, I can only help myself with the little from this business rather than being a dependent on people,” he said.

 The economy has gone worse under the government of President Muhammadu Buhari with inflation rising at an alarming rate.

A report by The Economist in May 2021 said, "Inflation is running at 18%. For food it is 23%, the highest in two decades. More than half of Nigerians are underemployed or unemployed. Before covid-19 about 80m of Nigeria’s 200m people lived on less than the equivalent of $1.90 a day. The pandemic and population growth could see that figure rise to almost 100m by 2023, says the World Bank."

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Some unknown gunmen, believed to be bandits, have killed Abdulkarim Bala Na Allah, son of Senator Bala Na Allah, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Kaduna state.

SaharaReporters gathered that Abdulkarim, a pilot was killed on Sunday at his residence around Umar Gwandu Road.

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He was the eldest son of the Senator representing Kebbi South Senatorial District in the National Assembly.

“We now have received the news of the death of Captain Aldulkarim Na Allah. The eldest son of Senator Bala IBN Na Allah.

“He was strangled to death by his assailants at his residence at Umar Gwandu Road, off Gwanja Road in Kaduna.

“His funeral will hold at Kaduna cemetery. May God forgive him,” a family source told SaharaReporters.

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Some unknown gunmen, believed to be bandits, have killed Abdulkarim Bala Na Allah, son of Senator Bala Na Allah, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Kaduna state.

SaharaReporters gathered that Abdulkarim, a pilot was killed on Sunday at his residence around Umar Gwandu Road.

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He was the eldest son of the Senator representing Kebbi South Senatorial District in the National Assembly.

“We now have received the news of the death of Captain Aldulkarim Na Allah. The eldest son of Senator Bala IBN Na Allah.

“He was strangled to death by his assailants at his residence at Umar Gwandu Road, off Gwanja Road in Kaduna.

“His funeral will hold at Kaduna cemetery. May God forgive him,” a family source told SaharaReporters.

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Five vigilantes have allegedly killed a man while attempting to kidnap his son in Adamawa state.

Two of the vigilantes have been identified as Abdulrahaman Alhaji Yakubu, 30 and Suleiman Lawan 35. 

The three others are currently at large.

Lawan and Yakubu along with those at large, reportedly stormed Gombodeked village along Dumne Road in the Song Local Government Area and carried out the attack.

SaharaReporters learnt that they invaded the residence of the deceased in the night and attempted to forcibly take his son away.

While dragging the boy away, his elder brother and father attempted to stop them, but the assailants opened fire on them, killing the father on the spot.

However, on hearing gunshots, the villagers mobilised, caught two out of the five kidnappers, and also rescued the victim.

The spokesperson for the police in the state, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, has confirmed that the suspects are in custody.

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Five vigilantes have allegedly killed a man while attempting to kidnap his son in Adamawa state.

Two of the vigilantes have been identified as Abdulrahaman Alhaji Yakubu, 30 and Suleiman Lawan 35. 

The three others are currently at large.

Lawan and Yakubu along with those at large, reportedly stormed Gombodeked village along Dumne Road in the Song Local Government Area and carried out the attack.

SaharaReporters learnt that they invaded the residence of the deceased in the night and attempted to forcibly take his son away.

While dragging the boy away, his elder brother and father attempted to stop them, but the assailants opened fire on them, killing the father on the spot.

However, on hearing gunshots, the villagers mobilised, caught two out of the five kidnappers, and also rescued the victim.

The spokesperson for the police in the state, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, has confirmed that the suspects are in custody.

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The Kano Hisbah Board, also known as the Islamic police has explained why it treats the rich and the poor differently while enforcing some of its rules. 

A director of the Islamic police, Aliyu Kibiya gave the explanation when he featured on a Freedom Radio programme. 

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According to Kibiya, it is against the tenets of Islam to publicly criticise a leader.

He said, “Although we call on everybody in the society to do the right thing, we make the call on a case by case basis.

“It is against the tenets of Islam to mount the podium and call out leaders. There are ways to caution a leader without criticising him in public."

Hisbah had recently come under intense pressure to act on some pictures of the daughter of the Emir of Bichi who recently got married to President Muhammadu Buhari’s only son.

A video of the wedding party shows Nigerian singer, Mayorkun singing and some of the party attendees spotting Afro, Mohawk, or any of the hairstyles Kano State Hisbah has labelled as “unIslamic” and an insult to Islam.

Also, secular songs Hisbah has vehemently frowned upon were played at the party, with young northern men and women dancing to them.

All these have attracted punishments from Kano Hisbah, in cases where poor Nigerians were involved.

Noting the hypocrisy exhibited by the Islamic police, which were nowhere to be found during the wedding, human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore had said, “Yusuf Buhari’s wedding and the Kano Hisbah that shaves the head of poor people but was nowhere to be found around the highly secular Muhammadu Buhari son’s wedding: One country, two laws -One is applicable to the poor and the other is applicable to rich and highly connected. Who says poverty is not a CRIME? #RevolutionNow #BuhariMustGo.”

Ironically, Hisbah has been notorious for shaving the heads of poor northerners with Afro, Mohawk, and other hairstyles termed as “unIslamic” by the bias Islamic police.

Similarly, in February, a barber from Benue State, Elijah Ode, was arrested by Kano Hisbah in the Sabongari area of the state for giving his customers haircuts said to have offended the Islamic faith.

Two of Ode’s customers were also tortured for having such “offensive” haircuts.

The religious police force reportedly arraigned Ode and had him remanded.

Recently, after it was knocked by the public for being silent on the photographs of the bridal shower of Buhari’s daughter-in-law, Hisbah responded by prohibiting the sharing of the bridal shower photographs.

SaharaReporters had reported that some Nigerians highlighted Zahra's gown, part of which is made from a transparent material, while others pointed out that she did not have her hair covered as is usually done by Muslim women.

The Islamic police described sharing the photos online by Muslims as a sin.

Meanwhile, the Islamic police have since banned stylish haircuts, sagging of trousers, and playing of music at social events by disk jockeys.

Hisbah also banned commercial motorcycles and tricycle riders from carrying two women at a time.

Of recent, the Kano State Hisbah Board banned the use of mannequins to display clothes by tailors, supermarkets, and boutique owners in the state.

Hisbah Commander-in-Chief, Ustaz Harun Muhammad Sani Ibn Sina, had said the use of mannequins by tailors, boutique owners, and others contravenes the provision of Islamic injunctions.

He added that the agency would educate offenders on how Islam frowns on the use of mannequins and send its officials to apprehend and prosecute them.

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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to compel the Nigerian government to disclose details of the proposed payment of N729 billion to poor Nigerians. 

The group is also seeking the "mechanisms and logistics for the payments, list of beneficiaries, and how they have been selected, and whether the payments will be made in cash or through Bank Verification Numbers or other means”. 

This was disclosed in a statement by the Deputy Director of SERAP, Kolawole Oluwadare and made available to SaharaReporters on Sunday. 

According to the statement, SERAP is also seeking “an order directing and compelling the Federal Government to explain the rationale for paying N5,000 to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months, which translates to five-percent of the country’s budget of N13.6 trillion for 2021”. 

The suit followed SERAP’s Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, stating that: “Disclosing the details of beneficiaries and selection criteria, as well as the payment plan would promote transparency and accountability, and remove the risks of mismanagement and diversion of public funds.”

In the suit numbered FHC/L/CS/853/2021 and filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos, SERAP is also seeking: “an order directing and compelling the Federal Government to clarify whether the proposed payment to poor Nigerians is part of the N5.6 trillion budget deficit”. 

In the suit filed against Umar-Farouk, SERAP is arguing that “Providing support and assistance to poor Nigerians is a human rights obligation but the programme to spend five percent of the 2021 budget, which is mostly based on deficit and borrowing, requires anti-corruption safeguards to ensure the payments go directly to the intended beneficiaries, and that public funds are not mismanaged or diverted”. 

It said: “The Nigerian Constitution of 1999 [as amended], UN Convention against Corruption, and African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party require the government to set the highest standards of transparency, accountability and probity in programmes that it oversees.

“The government has a responsibility to ensure that these requirements and other anti-corruption controls are fully implemented and monitored, and that the payments are justified in light of the huge budget deficit and borrowing, and whether there are better ways to spend N729bn to support poor Nigerians.

“The Federal Government has repeatedly failed to ensure transparency and accountability in the spending of public wealth and resources."

The suit filed last week on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers Kolawole Oluwadare and Opeyemi Owolabi, read in part: “Transparency and accountability in the programme would improve public trust, and allow Nigerians to track and monitor its implementation, and to assess if the programme is justified, as well as to hold authorities to account in cases of diversion, mismanagement and corruption.”

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.

 

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The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has given the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government 21 days to resolve all the issues contained in the various agreements signed with its affiliate members, including resident doctors currently on strike.

In the 21-day notice, it asked the government to resolve all pending issues with the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCAN), and the Medical and Dental Specialist Association in Basic Medical Sciences (MEDSABAMS). 

The warning came after the NMA's National Executive Council meeting in Edo State where it discussed the ongoing strike by resident doctors and the government's position.

The NMA warned that no doctor should be victimised for participating or not participating in the strike action by NARD, adding that it supports all its affiliates in their efforts to improve healthcare delivery and their welfare. 

A statement by the NMA President, Prof Innocent Ujah, said, "In the event that the Federal Government fails to implement the agreements after the expiration of the 21-day notice, NMA shall summon an emergency delegate meeting to review the progress made on the implementation of the agreements."

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